# kill_task(task_id())

sysop@calbbs.com (sysop@calbbs.com)
Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:26:56 PST

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    How can one prevent someone from killing a task that they shouldn't be
    killing?  Denying prog-bits is not an option in many situations, and
    using fork() for every call to a verb that might possible kill the task
    would be inefficient and would probably spam the living heck out of the
    poor server.  Anyone got any ideas?  Pavel, do you think you could
    squeeze some kind of countermeasure against this into the server before
    your time is up?  Perhaps some method of designating a task unkillable by
    verbs down the line?  (kill_task(task_id()); being functionally eqivilant
    to return; when this mode is in effect, except for calls with wizard
    perms)

    TIA,

    Brian
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